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General Plan Conformance The Pleasanton General Plan land use designation for this site is Retail/Highway/Service Commercial, Business, and Professional Offices. The maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) for this land use designation is 60%. The proposed FAR is 42.4%, which conforms to this standard. Site Access, Layout and Parking Site Access and Layout The entire parking area will be redesigned and rebuilt in the project area. Access from Stoneridge Mall Road will be provided by three driveway openings, reduced from the nine existing driveway openings that currently serve Sears and the parking structure. On-site circulation will be configured with two main driveways from Stoneridge Mall Road to the development (one at the signalized intersection of Stoneridge Mall Road and Embarcadero Court) with connecting vehicular access and circulation into the existing adjacent parking fields. The driveway in front of the new lifestyle fitness building will function as a drop-off point for customers. The development will also include an internal road that will loop through the project and provide customer and delivery loading and unloading access for the new businesses. The proposal would place buildings closer to Stoneridge Mall Road than those that exist today. As measured based on the site plan, the lifestyle fitness building would be set back from Stoneridge Mall Road approximately 30 feet, a decrease from that of the closest existing building, the parking structure, which is set back approximately 60 feet. New pedestrian sidewalks, bike paths, landscaping, and driveways will be located in the area between the building and Stoneridge Mall Road. As currently shown on the plans, the area between the street and building would include an 8.5 -foot wide landscape strip, 12 -foot wide pedestrian/bike path and 10 -foot wide landscaped area. The new pedestrian/bike path and planter strip along the inner part of Stoneridge Mall Road would serve as the protype for all future development within the inner loop of the Mall creating greater pedestrian access and safety from the BART station and surrounding uses. Staff has requested the applicant provide additional area to be dedicated for right-of-way purposes for future widening of Stoneridge Mall Road. This additional dedication would require the building location to be shifted further into the interior of the site which may change the final configuration of the site and building layout. Parking The project would result in a total of 5,360 parking spaces for the entire Stoneridge Mall, a reduction of 1,251 spaces from what currently exists. The applicant is preparing a detailed traffic and parking study; however, staff has developed an initial analysis of parking, outlined below. In accordance with the Development Agreement, required parking for the existing and proposed uses at Stoneridge Mall is determined as follows: Department stores and mall stores: 1,155,603 square feet of floor area at 4.5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet totaling 5,200 parking spaces. (Note: restaurants, specialty grocery store, cinema floor area, and the lifestyle fitness were subtracted from the proposal's overall floor area). P18-0340, Stoneridge Shopping Center Planning Commission 8 of 13